Making words Plural

[tryce430]

Hi,

I've actually been working on a homework assignment which asks me to turn words into their plural forms. The first task is to check if the words are more than 3 characters and end in "us". If it does I just take out the us and add an "i" at the end. Otherwise I just throw an "s" to the end of the word. I think I got most of the program down, but for some reason it gives me an error with &&. Could someone take a look at my code and tell me what I may be doing wrong regarding && or anything else?

public class Plurals
{
public static void main(String[] args)
{
String word;

System.out.println("Enter a word to be pluralized");
word = IO.readString();
word = word.toLowerCase();

int length = word.length();
if (length > 3 && word.charAt(length-1) = "s" &&
word.charAt(length-2) = "u")

word = word.substring(0,length-2) + "i";

else

word = word.concat("s");
IO.outputStringAnswer(word);

}
}

[r035198x]

Hi,

I've actually been working on a homework assignment which asks me to turn words into their plural forms. The first task is to check if the words are more than 3 characters and end in "us". If it does I just take out the us and add an "i" at the end. Otherwise I just throw an "s" to the end of the word. I think I got most of the program down, but for some reason it gives me an error with &&. Could someone take a look at my code and tell me what I may be doing wrong regarding && or anything else?

public class Plurals
{
public static void main(String[] args)
{
String word;

System.out.println("Enter a word to be pluralized");
word = IO.readString();
word = word.toLowerCase();

int length = word.length();
if (length > 3 && word.charAt(length-1) = "s" &&
word.charAt(length-2) = "u")

word = word.substring(0,length-2) + "i";

else

word = word.concat("s");
IO.outputStringAnswer(word);

}
}

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